Re: DateBk5 Categories Support / Speed of Synch

[Alex Ramos <alexjramos yahoo com>]

Marc,

I have been having some trouble getting my Handspring Treo to Sync over
USB.  Would you mind sharing what "tweaking" you did to get this to
work?

Thanks!

Alex.


On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 17:22, Marc Schwartz wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I just got my RH9/NX70V Clie combination finally synching over USB with
> Evolution 1.4.  It took some tweaking, but seems to be reasonably
> working. I have even set up access to the Memory Stick for file transfer
> which is great.
> 
> A couple of queries:
> 
> First, I noted that the current conduits (2.0.9) do not appear to
> support the synching of event, contact and task categories used in
> DateBk5, which is one of the more popular Palm OS Calendar/Contact
> apps.  
> 
> For the record and to be fair, under WinXP/Outlook, I need to use
> PocketMirror, since the default synch program with the Clie,
> Intellisynch, does not support this feature either.
> 
> Am I missing some configuration option in the conduits or is this
> feature not supported?  If the latter, are there any plans to support
> this feature and if so, is there a time-frame?  
> 
> I presume that this can be done, since JPilot appears to synch these
> using pilot-link and there is an option in the JPilot preferences to
> enable/disable support for the DateBk Note Tags. This perhaps raises the
> question as to whether or not this is a conduit issue, an Evolution
> issue or both?
> 
> Second, the speed of synching, even when no changes have been made in
> Evolution seems to be rather slow relative to what I am used to seeing
> under WinXP.  I have the speed set to 115,200 in both the Clie and the
> conduits. 
> 
> Is the synch time a reflection of slower net USB speeds under RH 9 or is
> there some feature in Outlook (ie. a changed record flag) that enables
> the synching to be faster than with Evolution? If so, then again, this
> may raise the question of this being a conduit and/or Evolution issue.
> 
> Any insights into both issues would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Marc
> 
> 
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